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Some Observations On The Baroness Mone of Mayfair OBE’s Crisis Management

Plan B Consulting

From humble roots, she built her fortune on the Ultimo bra in 1999, but sold her stake in the company in 2015. At the beginning of the pandemic, she took the ‘VIP lane’ deals, making use of her political connections and provided PPE (personal protective equipment), which was later found to be substandard and unusable.

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Making Environmental Stewardship a Priority for Business

BMC

Every April, we celebrate Earth Day, and this year, BMC is taking it a step further with a whole month of activities for our inaugural Climate Action Month. During the pandemic, PPE began showing up in our oceans and threatening our wildlife. And we’re not alone. How much money? How about $120 trillion? We’re so glad you asked!

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Making Environmental Stewardship a Priority for Business

BMC

Every April, we celebrate Earth Day, and this year, BMC is taking it a step further with a whole month of activities for our inaugural Climate Action Month. During the pandemic, PPE began showing up in our oceans and threatening our wildlife. And we’re not alone. How much money? How about $120 trillion? We’re so glad you asked!

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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

In this context, I salute the thoughtful work of Christopher Gomez, Dierdre Hart and JC Gaillard (Gomez and Hart 2013, Gaillard and Gomez 2015) on the phenomenon of the "disaster gold rush". If we are asked to do more, it must be at the expense of some other activity. Gomez 2015. This also exists outside the academic field.

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Cybercrime is Driving More Executives to Push Resilience Forward

Castellan

A report from Cybersecurity Ventures further quantifies just how lucrative cybercrime has become, saying it anticipates that cybercrime costs will increase by 15% each year over the next five years, and by 2015 will reach $10.5 trillion USD annually. Why is this shift happening now? Why is This Important?

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What Is Risk Management?

LogisManager

However, risk management is an umbrella term that accounts for a number of more granular activities. Let’s examine risk management as the sum of the following parts: Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) : Effectively assessing , mitigating and monitoring activities as you uncover critical risks across your entire enterprise.

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Unlocking Resilience Podcast: William Shatner – Resilience Makes the Leader

everbridge

And it’s my opinion that this pandemic that we’re in the United States, at least we’re coming out of is a rehearsal for the things that are, that are coming our way. And particularly during times of crisis, such as what we’ve all been dealing with going through this global pandemic. Well, I know nothing.